Will there be a mental health crisis following lockdown.

[loza0820]

I personally am struggling. A lot.

I’ve never really had any issues with mental health but these last few weeks my mental health has started to deteriorate.

I’m finding lockdown so hard, but at the same time I fear it being lifted.

I keep thinking what we would’ve been doing this weekend if things were ‘normal’ and I get so upset at the thought of it.

I’m starting to feel like a prisoner. I barely leave the house.

I’m a really social person and I’m struggling not having my usual plans.
Maybe my mental health has always depended on being social, and that’s why I’ve never had an issue with mental health before.

I’m sure there are many many people like myself.

I fear that this period in our lives will result in a major mental health crisis. I fear that now I’m on that downward slope I’ll just keep sliding down 😣

@Babyroobs I think my DS is possibly one of very few kids not effected here. He has time off due to underlying health issues, for sometimes extended periods, so he is quite used to doing work on his own in bed at home. It's the one time his health has put him at an advantage.

But everyone else I've spoken to worries alot for their teens. I'm just hoping schools can use some foresight and perhaps allow staggered returns, perhaps have online chats or phone calls with pupils.

I’ve been able to wean myself off my 60mg of fluoxetine during lockdown. I would never have said that work was making me depressed but turns out that it possibly may have been

I had a small breakdown last year was getting my life back and thus all started I have broken I think there will be a new pandemic of mental health after this